It’s late. Just got home from a formal awards banquet. The Competitor Awards. I was sitting at a table with my friends. Right up front. The premier table. A table you don’t get to just walk up to and claim as yours… it’s reserved for you.

That is where I like to be.

As I sat there and looked around I realized how cool my life really is. I realized that I have such awesome, incredible people around me… and then it suddenly occurred to me. The reason I was sitting at that table with those people is because I am one of those people!

One of my friends on this night was inducted into the Hall of Fame. She has a World Championship title at Ironman, and 15 other titles to go with that one.

Amazing.

Another women at that table holds more world titles than any women ever will. 24 titles. 8 of those are World Championships. She was inducted in the Hall of Fame a few years ago.

The funny thing was as we sat there and watched some of the other awards going on, other people being honored, everything from double amputees finishing an ironman to Tour De France Champions who had crashed, suffered brain damage, and rehabbed himself back to competition level, back to functioning in life…. it was all normal stuff to us.

We sat at our table and laughed and fully enjoyed ourselves. We made jokes about each other and had people coming up to our table wanting to just say hi, break into our private conversations. This is all normal to us, having people want to try and be in the pack….. I have some really cool friends. My friends feel like family, they are family. We all feel that way. And it’s very interesting to me that we are all very accomplished at sport and as we move through life, into our 40’s we are now accomplished at our own businesses.

We are all champions, we are all good at sport, we are all good at business, we are all good with money, we are all good at now giving back to the world and teaching others the fundamentals of our life long practices.

Because we were all coach-able, we now can coach, through a lot of experience.

It was an interesting night. I realized what I have. Sometimes we take it for granted. It must have been the gathering of a bunch of incredible people in one spot. That, and a little wine!

I love my life.

Zelda

http://zeldamontgomery.com